the hostage crisis at Hamburg airport is over

Relief after several endless hours. German police announced on Sunday, November 5, that they had put an end to the hostage-taking on the tarmac of Hamburg airport (Germany). “The hostage situation is over, the man left the car with his daughter and was arrested without resistance by the police”indicated the local police on X (formerly Twitter), specifying that the child “seems healthy“.

Airport traffic had been blocked since Saturday evening by this hostage situation, after the kidnapping of a child by his father as part of a family conflict, according to local authorities. Around 8 p.m., the gunman drove his car through an airport gate and onto the tarmac, firing twice into the air and throwing two burning bottles out of the cabin, a door said. -police word. He wanted to try to go to Turkey with his daughter.

The wife of the driver of the car had alerted the police to the child’s kidnapping, a police spokesperson said. “We have mobilized police psychologists and we are currently speaking with the perpetrator. We are banking on a negotiated solution here”, a police spokesperson told regional public television channel NDR during the negotiations. She had described as “very good sign” that the father of the family remained in contact with the authorities “for so long”.